Definitions

(iii) "building" includes any shop, out-house, shed, superstructure or other building for human habitation or otherwise whether of mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatever and all walls but does not include mud-wall built round a field not abutting on a public road; (iv) "erect" or "re-erect" any building includes- (a) any material alteration or enlargement of any building ; (b) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building constructed for human habitation ; (c) the conversion into more than one place of human habitation of a building originally constructed as one such habitation ; (d) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places ; (e) such alteration of a building as affects its drainage or sanitary arrangements or affects its stability ; (f) the addition of any rooms, buildings, out-houses or other structures to any building ; and (g) the construction in a wall adjoining a public street or land of a door opening on to such street or land ; (v) "explosive" means gun-powder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder, fulminate of mercury of other metals, coloured fires and every other substance used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect, fireworks, cartridges, ammunition, of all descriptions and every preparation of an explosive; (vi) "Gazette" means the Government Gazette ; (vii) "inhabitant" means any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business or owning or occupying immovable property in any town area, and in case of any dispute means any person declared by the Government to be an inhabitant ; (viii) "land" shall include land which is being built upon or is covered with water ; (ix) [omitted.] (x) "occupier" means, in the case of a house let out to tenants or to lodgers or travellers, the person who lets the house or is entitled to receive the rents or payments from the tenants or travellers ; (xi) "offensive callings and trades" include melting tallow, dressing raw hides, boiling bones, offal or blood, soap-boiling, oil-boiling house, dyeing house, tannery or gut scrapping, brick field, brick kiln, engine house, store house or place of business from which offensive or unwholesome smells, gasses, noises or smoke arise ; (xii) "owner" when used in reference to any land or building includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of land or building or of any part of the land or building, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any person or society or for any religious or charitable purpose or who would so receive the same if the land or building were let to a tenant ; (xiii) "prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or by any rule or order made thereunder ; (xiv) "public place" means a space which is open to the use or enjoyment of the public, whether or not private property and whether or not vested in the Committee ; (xv) "public road" means any road, street, bridge, thoroughfare, passage or place over which the public have a right of way and includes drains ; (xvi) "rule" means a rule made in exercise of the powers conferred by this Act ; (xvii) "street" means any road, footway, lane, square, court, alley, or passage, accessible whether permanently or temporarily to the public and whether a thorough fare or not and includes drains or gutters on either side ; (xviii) "town area" means any local area which the Government has declared or defined under section 3 to be a town area ; (xix) "vehicle" includes a bicycle, tricycle, auto-rickshaw and every wheeled conveyance which is used or capable of being used on a public street.